DAVID L. KAPLAN, MD—Series Editor University of Missouri Kansas City, University of Kansas
DAVID L. KAPLAN, MD—Series Editor University of Missouri Kansas City, University of Kan...
ImpetigoA 16-year-old girl is bothered by a spreading, itchy rash of 1 week’s duration on the left preauricular cheek. The otherwise healthy teenager denies taking any new medications or using new...
Dr King is in private practice in pain medicine in New York and is clinical professor of psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine, also in New York. He is board-certified in pain medicine and psychiatry and is a licensed acupuncturist.
Steven A. King, MD, MS
New York University
Dr King is in private practice in pain medi...
There are many therapies for treating chronic pain ranging from medications to invasive techniques, including injections and surgery. Often overlooked and underused are the various nonpharmacologic...
SUSAN BROWN, MD, SARA LASKEY, MD, and DAVID EFFRON, MD Case Western Reserve University
Dr Brown is a senior instructor at Case Western Reserve University and attending physician in the department of emergency medicine at the Metro-Health Medical Center. Dr Laskey is associate professor at Case Western Reserve University and attending physician in the department of emergency medicine at the MetroHealth Medical Center. Dr Effron is assistant professor of emergency medicine at Case Western Reserve University, attending physician in the department of emergency medicine at the MetroHealth Medical Center, and consultant emergency physician at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, all in Cleveland.
SUSAN BROWN, MD, SARA LASKEY, MD, and DAVID EFFRON, MD
Case Western Reserve Univer...
GREGORY W. RUTECKI, MD—Series Editor University of South Alabama
Dr Rutecki is professor of medicine at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine in Mobile. He is also a member of the editorial board of CONSULTANT.
GREGORY W. RUTECKI, MD—Series Editor
University of South Alabama
Dr Rutecki is profess...
<p>The residents and I recently evaluated a patient with midsubstance Achilles tendinopathy. I have a sensitive spot for sufferers of Achilles discomfort since I ruptured mine 20 years ago (ouch!). A...
GREGORY W. RUTECKI, MD—Series Editor University of South Alabama
Dr Rutecki is professor of medicine at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine in Mobile. He is also a member of the editorial board of CONSULTANT.
GREGORY W. RUTECKI, MD—Series Editor
University of South Alabama
Dr Rutecki is profess...
<p>Despite being the “most preventable cause of death among hospitalized patients,” pulmonary embolic disease (PED) still manages to claim 100,000 to 180,000 lives a year in the United States.<span...
<p>Febrile seizures—primary generalized seizures that last less than 15 minutes and do not recur within 24 hours—are the most common convulsive event in children under age 5. Between 2% and 5% of all...
MAHESH K. DUGGAL, MD, NEETA M. SHAH, MD, and ARUNABH, MD North Shore University Hospital at Forest Hills, New York
MAHESH K. DUGGAL, MD, NEETA M. SHAH, MD, and ARUNABH, MD
North Shore University Hospita...
The patient had an anterior mediastinal mass caused by the lymphoma compressing the trachea, which presented initially as features of bronchial asthma.
MARC RENDELL, MD Creighton University and the Rose Salter Medical Research Foundation
Dr Rendell is professor of medicine and director of the Diabetes Center at Creighton University in Omaha. He is also medical director of the Rose Salter Medical Research Foundation and executive director of the Association of Diabetes Investigators. He has been an investigator in most major trials of new oral antidiabetic agents and new insulins, including inhaled insulin.
MARC RENDELL, MD
Creighton University and the Rose Salter Medical Research Foundation
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The management of diabetes is continuing to advance.
